5.7 2005/03/28 23:37:32 2.889 96.325 30.0 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
5.7 2005/03/28 23:13:00 0.192 97.016 30.0 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
4.9 2005/03/28 21:34:07 0.843 97.737 30.0 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
5.2 2005/03/28 20:35:17 1.725 97.092 30.0 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
5.2 2005/03/28 20:23:21 0.872 97.694 30.0 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
5.0 2005/03/28 20:19:09 4.955 92.316 30.0 OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
5.4 2005/03/28 20:06:26 1.080 97.374 30.0 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
5.8 2005/03/28 19:02:20 1.010 97.817 30.0 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
5.5 2005/03/28 18:48:53 2.729 95.958 30.0 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
5.3 2005/03/28 17:59:47 0.947 97.804 30.0 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
6.0 2005/03/28 16:38:43 1.372 97.362 30.0 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/ ... 5_eqs.html
Some aftershocks followed the big one.That list above shows the aftershocks from bottom upward so the 6.0 was the first aftershock.
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since this is the second on Sumatra, wher ethe super volcano is, are we 100% sure that these are not warning signs. I know we dismissed them after the first quake, but now this is 2 horrific quakes within a very short period of time in the same area. Are we missing a critical warning signal of TOBA, or ar eht etectonic plates just a bit more active than usual
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remember, we dont know the warning signs for a super volcano, though quakes are the most likely.
all of the concern on yellowstone, yet we have quakes in indonesia. If this were Yellowstone, there would probably be plans for the total evac of a large part of the USA. Hoping this is just tectonics though.
Now, if we get a 3rd or even a 4th, then maybe we are in some trouble
all of the concern on yellowstone, yet we have quakes in indonesia. If this were Yellowstone, there would probably be plans for the total evac of a large part of the USA. Hoping this is just tectonics though.
Now, if we get a 3rd or even a 4th, then maybe we are in some trouble
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Quake Strikes Island Off Sumatra; 300 People Killed (Update7)
March 29 (Bloomberg) -- A magnitude 8.7 earthquake, among the 10 most powerful worldwide since 1900, struck near the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia last night, killing 300 people on the island of Nias, the government said.
About three-quarters of the two-story buildings on Nias have collapsed, presidential spokesman Andi Mallarangeng said in a telephone interview from Jakarta today. The death toll may rise to as high as 2,000, he said. The official toll is 300, Sugeng Triutomo, an official at the National Coordinating Body for Disaster Relief, said earlier.
The quake sparked panic as governments issued tsunami warnings in Indian Ocean countries that are trying to recover from the Dec. 26 disaster that killed more than 270,000 people in the region and sparked the biggest relief operation in history with more than $6 billion pledged. The latest quake was located near the epicenter of the December one.
``We have sent search and rescue teams from Indonesia, Malaysia and France to Nias,'' Triutomo said.
The airport in the city of Gunungsitoli on Nias was damaged, with the tower collapsing and the runway cracked, Information Minister Sofyan Djalil said after an emergency relief meeting today in Jakarta. Nias has a population of about 700,000.
Striking Waves
A 3-meter wave struck the island of Simeuleu north of Nias causing damage, Agence France-Presse reported citing local military officials. Earlier, an Indonesian Red Cross official said the body wasn't able to contact staff on Simeuleu island.
The earthquake, the intensity of which was revised from 8.2 by the U.S. Geological Survey, occurred at 11:09 p.m. yesterday Indonesian time, it said on its Web site. The quake's epicenter was 30 kilometers underground and it was located 250 kilometers southwest of Medan, the capital of North Sumatra. The December quake was located 300 kilometers west of Medan.
``We have lost contact with Simeuleu Island, which I strongly suspect, also suffered quite badly from the earthquake last night,'' said Iyang Sukandar, secretary general for Indonesian Red Cross, in a phone interview.
``We have 20 people on the ground there who have been helping with relief efforts, including doctors and nurses, but we haven't been able to gain contact with any of them.''
The Indonesian Red Cross sent an assessment team of 12 people to Nias earlier this morning, he said.
Canceled Warnings
The town of Singkil on the coast of Sumatra adjacent to the earthquake was flattened by the earthquake, AFP reported. The town was damaged in the December quake.
The Banyak islands next to Singkil and in between Nias and Simeuleu were directly above the quake, according to location maps.
``Infrastructure has been severely damaged in Nias, Simeuleu, as well as on Banyak islands,'' Endang Suwarya, a military commander in Aceh, told MetroTV. He didn't say if there were casualties in Banyak.
Oxfam International said it had reached Nias island in an e- mailed statement received this afternoon.
``The devastation is obvious as soon as you land,'' Alessandra Boas, a member of the Oxfam team, was quoted saying in the statement. ``Many of the houses here have collapsed, but it's still too early for us to get a sense of the full scale of this.''
Without Power
The Belawan gas power plant in Medan on the other side of the Sumatran coast, ``is now only operating 300 megawatts from 800 megawatts because of damage from the quake,'' said Minister for Mining Resources and Energy Yusgiantoro Purnomo. ``We are fixing it and at the moment Medan and its vicinity are in blackout.''
The World Health Organization extended $10,000 in immediate aid to treat trauma and injuries, it said in an e-mailed press statement. It said basic needs such as shelter, food, water, sanitation and family hygiene are priorities. It sent a team of 50 health personnel on a Hercules aircraft today, it said.
The International Organization for Migration will send supplies from Medan, which is its base for relief aid to Aceh, it said.
The government provided 35 billion rupiah ($3.6 million) immediately and there are 2 trillion of funds available, officials said.
Aceh province, which administers Simeuleu, and North Sumatra, the province where Nias is, were the worst hit areas in the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami disaster with more than 220,000 killed or missing.
The giant waves, at 10 meters high in some places, devastated local economies in Indian Ocean countries, including the fishing industry in Sri Lanka and beach hotels in Thailand.
Without Power
Nias has a population of 711,661, with 42 percent aged less than 15 and 61 percent under 26 years of age, according to a government damage report in January. Nias is the poorest district in North Sumatra with a share of only 4.43 percent of regional gross domestic product, it said.
About 40 percent of Nias is without power, said Eddie Widiono, president of PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara, the state utility.
Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India issued tsunami alerts early today, which were later canceled, AP said. Television networks showed people fleeing in most locations.
In the Maldives, waves 23 centimeters (9.2 inches) higher than average were recorded today, with similar wave anomalies noted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Robert Cessaro, a geophysicist at the U.S. government's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu in a telephone interview.
The earthquake is a wake-up call for creating a tsunami early warning system in the Indian Ocean, the United Nations said.
``What we hope now is that the international community will really speed up work on the early warning system for the tsunami,'' Jan Egeland, the UN emergency relief coordinator, said yesterday, according to the UN's Web site.
There were 15 aftershocks of magnitude 4.9 or greater in the area through to 12:16 p.m. local time, the USGS said. The most powerful was 6.1 magnitude at 1:30 a.m., it said.
Indonesia's 18,000 islands are prone to earthquakes because the nation sits along the Pacific's ``ring of fire'' zone of active volcanoes and tectonic faults. The country lies above three major tectonic plates, or slabs of the Earth's crust that float on the planet's molten core.
March 29 (Bloomberg) -- A magnitude 8.7 earthquake, among the 10 most powerful worldwide since 1900, struck near the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia last night, killing 300 people on the island of Nias, the government said.
About three-quarters of the two-story buildings on Nias have collapsed, presidential spokesman Andi Mallarangeng said in a telephone interview from Jakarta today. The death toll may rise to as high as 2,000, he said. The official toll is 300, Sugeng Triutomo, an official at the National Coordinating Body for Disaster Relief, said earlier.
The quake sparked panic as governments issued tsunami warnings in Indian Ocean countries that are trying to recover from the Dec. 26 disaster that killed more than 270,000 people in the region and sparked the biggest relief operation in history with more than $6 billion pledged. The latest quake was located near the epicenter of the December one.
``We have sent search and rescue teams from Indonesia, Malaysia and France to Nias,'' Triutomo said.
The airport in the city of Gunungsitoli on Nias was damaged, with the tower collapsing and the runway cracked, Information Minister Sofyan Djalil said after an emergency relief meeting today in Jakarta. Nias has a population of about 700,000.
Striking Waves
A 3-meter wave struck the island of Simeuleu north of Nias causing damage, Agence France-Presse reported citing local military officials. Earlier, an Indonesian Red Cross official said the body wasn't able to contact staff on Simeuleu island.
The earthquake, the intensity of which was revised from 8.2 by the U.S. Geological Survey, occurred at 11:09 p.m. yesterday Indonesian time, it said on its Web site. The quake's epicenter was 30 kilometers underground and it was located 250 kilometers southwest of Medan, the capital of North Sumatra. The December quake was located 300 kilometers west of Medan.
``We have lost contact with Simeuleu Island, which I strongly suspect, also suffered quite badly from the earthquake last night,'' said Iyang Sukandar, secretary general for Indonesian Red Cross, in a phone interview.
``We have 20 people on the ground there who have been helping with relief efforts, including doctors and nurses, but we haven't been able to gain contact with any of them.''
The Indonesian Red Cross sent an assessment team of 12 people to Nias earlier this morning, he said.
Canceled Warnings
The town of Singkil on the coast of Sumatra adjacent to the earthquake was flattened by the earthquake, AFP reported. The town was damaged in the December quake.
The Banyak islands next to Singkil and in between Nias and Simeuleu were directly above the quake, according to location maps.
``Infrastructure has been severely damaged in Nias, Simeuleu, as well as on Banyak islands,'' Endang Suwarya, a military commander in Aceh, told MetroTV. He didn't say if there were casualties in Banyak.
Oxfam International said it had reached Nias island in an e- mailed statement received this afternoon.
``The devastation is obvious as soon as you land,'' Alessandra Boas, a member of the Oxfam team, was quoted saying in the statement. ``Many of the houses here have collapsed, but it's still too early for us to get a sense of the full scale of this.''
Without Power
The Belawan gas power plant in Medan on the other side of the Sumatran coast, ``is now only operating 300 megawatts from 800 megawatts because of damage from the quake,'' said Minister for Mining Resources and Energy Yusgiantoro Purnomo. ``We are fixing it and at the moment Medan and its vicinity are in blackout.''
The World Health Organization extended $10,000 in immediate aid to treat trauma and injuries, it said in an e-mailed press statement. It said basic needs such as shelter, food, water, sanitation and family hygiene are priorities. It sent a team of 50 health personnel on a Hercules aircraft today, it said.
The International Organization for Migration will send supplies from Medan, which is its base for relief aid to Aceh, it said.
The government provided 35 billion rupiah ($3.6 million) immediately and there are 2 trillion of funds available, officials said.
Aceh province, which administers Simeuleu, and North Sumatra, the province where Nias is, were the worst hit areas in the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami disaster with more than 220,000 killed or missing.
The giant waves, at 10 meters high in some places, devastated local economies in Indian Ocean countries, including the fishing industry in Sri Lanka and beach hotels in Thailand.
Without Power
Nias has a population of 711,661, with 42 percent aged less than 15 and 61 percent under 26 years of age, according to a government damage report in January. Nias is the poorest district in North Sumatra with a share of only 4.43 percent of regional gross domestic product, it said.
About 40 percent of Nias is without power, said Eddie Widiono, president of PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara, the state utility.
Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India issued tsunami alerts early today, which were later canceled, AP said. Television networks showed people fleeing in most locations.
In the Maldives, waves 23 centimeters (9.2 inches) higher than average were recorded today, with similar wave anomalies noted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Robert Cessaro, a geophysicist at the U.S. government's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu in a telephone interview.
The earthquake is a wake-up call for creating a tsunami early warning system in the Indian Ocean, the United Nations said.
``What we hope now is that the international community will really speed up work on the early warning system for the tsunami,'' Jan Egeland, the UN emergency relief coordinator, said yesterday, according to the UN's Web site.
There were 15 aftershocks of magnitude 4.9 or greater in the area through to 12:16 p.m. local time, the USGS said. The most powerful was 6.1 magnitude at 1:30 a.m., it said.
Indonesia's 18,000 islands are prone to earthquakes because the nation sits along the Pacific's ``ring of fire'' zone of active volcanoes and tectonic faults. The country lies above three major tectonic plates, or slabs of the Earth's crust that float on the planet's molten core.
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They were very lucky that no big tsunami formed
(CNN) -- Three months after catastrophic tsunamis killed more than 170,000 people, luck helped spare Indonesia and the Indian Ocean region from widespread devastation when a massive earthquake struck again Monday, a geologist said.
Indonesian officials report 330 people are dead on the islands of Nias and Simeulue off Sumatra from Monday's quake, which was centered 60 miles (97 kilometers) south on the same fault line of the December 26 earthquake.
The latest quake was smaller than the December one that triggered the tsunamis, and the Earth ruptured in a different direction, said Patrick Leahy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
"The rupture moved to the southeast," Leahy said on CNN's "American Morning."
"It was a different segment of the same fault, but because of that direction and other variables -- for example the depth of water where the earthquake occurred, the materials -- all of those factors really came to play in terms of whether it
That region ofthe world was very lucky this time as the geologist says above.
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4.8 2005/03/29 14:43:31 0.913 97.411 30.0 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
5.2 2005/03/29 14:16:05 2.507 95.960 25.5 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
5.2 2005/03/29 10:56:54 2.231 96.487 26.5 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
5.0 2005/03/29 06:16:15 1.760 99.062 30.0 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
5.8 2005/03/29 05:16:30 2.617 96.536 30.0 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
5.4 2005/03/29 04:50:08 0.169 97.085 37.6 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
5.3 2005/03/29 04:19:01 1.232 97.120 22.3 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
5.3 2005/03/29 04:09:14 1.594 96.975 26.5 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
5.0 2005/03/29 02:22:41 0.980 97.438 23.5 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
5.2 2005/03/29 00:56:04 1.670 97.107 30.0 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
More aftershocks one day after the very strong 8.7 one.
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x-y-no wrote:Brent wrote:Ummm... isn't Toba bigger than Yellowstone? I think we would all be gone if that thing erupted.The lava might miss but we'd likely slowly freeze to death. Not sure what's worse...
On the positive side ... we wouldn't have to worry about global warming.
Actually, I don't think we'd have to worry about ANYTHING at that point.
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At least 1000 people killed, 300 injured and 300 buildings destroyed on Nias; 100 people killed, many injured and several buildings damaged on Simeulue; 200 people killed in Kepulauan Banyak; 3 people killed, 40 injured and some damage in the Meulaboh area, Sumatra. A 3-meter tsunami damaged the port and airport on Simeulue. Tsunami runup heights as high as 2 meters were observed on the west coast of Nias and 1 meter at Singkil and Meulaboh, Sumatra. Felt (VI) at Banda Aceh and (V) at Medan. At least 10 people were killed during evacuation of the coast of Sri Lanka. Felt (IV) along the west coast of Malaysia; (IV) at Bangkok and (III) at Phuket, Thailand; (III) at Singapore; (III) at Male, Maldives. The quake was also felt in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India and in Sri Lanka. Tsunami wave heights (peak to trough) recorded from selected tide stations: about 40 cm on Panjang, Indonesia; about 25 cm at Colombo, Sri Lanka; 40 cm on Hanimadu, 18 cm at Male and 10 cm at Gan, Maldives. Initial observations indicate about 1 meter of subsidence on the coast of Kepulauan Banyak as well as 1 meter of uplift on the coast of Simeulue. Seiches were observed on ponds in West Bengal, India.
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